Keeping Your Cutie’s Patootie Soft and Smooth

It seemed in the old days the way to combat diaper rash was with a commonly used petroleum product. But who wants to smear oily goop on their baby’s skin when there are safer and more effective products available. Hence, Wild Natural Baby’s Cutie Patootie Diaper Ointment.

While zinc oxide creates an effective barrier, Cutie Patootie combines essential oils known for their healing and soothing properties with beeswax to it, creating a thick and creamy ointment. It relieves red and irritated skin associated with diaper rash.

Diaper rash is a common ailment and happens often. The rash is caused by moisture trapped on the skin for long periods of time combined with the constant irritation of the diaper itself. This eventually breaks down the integrity of the skin which becomes inflamed. Cutie Patootie Diaper Ointment provides a protective layer on the skin while delivering ingredients (Grapeseed oil, Lavender essential oil, and Vitamin E oil) known to repair irritated, rough, cracked skin and antibacterial and antiseptic essential oils (Tea Tree and Lavender essential oil) to keep infection at bay.

Here are some basic tips to prevent diaper rash:
Change your baby’s diaper often and poopy diapers right away.
Clean the skin well using wipes or plain water.
When using any ointment make sure the skin’s surface is dry before applying.

If you don’t see an improvement in your baby’s diaper rash after 5 to 7 days consult your pediatrician.

Please visit our website at WildNautralBaby.com or WildNaturalBeauty.com for our entire natural and organic products. All of our products are sulfate-, paraben-, and phthalate-free.

Lisa Radke is one of the owners of Wild Natural Beauty natural and organic beauty essentials.

Take A Timeout

This week I let one little negative thought settle in my mind and it created very sour mood. I was tired and indulged in some crankiness. Before I knew it I was drowning in defeated thoughts. Negativity is like a virus. If you don’t fight it off immediately it’ll settle in and grow outrageously fast. Negative thoughts drain you physically, emotionally, spiritually. They don’t inspire you to change in fact they can stop you in your tracks because you lack the energy to dream and act.

Negativity is a matter of perception. It’s ignoring the present moment and looking at your situation as it really exists. Some aspect of negative thinking is always a result of comparing your situation currently to where it should be. Focusing on the “should be” blinds you to what exists now and sometimes its not as bad you think it is. It was for me. I had to stop thinking for awhile and come back to the present moment. Once my mind stopped spinning with all my worries I was able to see that I wasn’t in such a bad spot.

By observing situations or life as it really is creates a solid foundation on which to build. It’s touchstone for you to come back when you loose your way. When you catch yourself being swallowed by negative thoughts, stop. Stop thinking. It may not be possible to replace those dour thoughts with optimistic ones immediately, but you can stop thinking . Consider it a timeout. Do something to get your mind off things. Take a walk, see a movie, talk to a friend. It’s important to change the energy and the best way to do this is to distract you from your thoughts. I ended up taking a walk. Being in the open air and sweating through some of it got my mind off it. When I came back I actually had to try to remember why I was brooding. I soon found my answer and my mood completely changed for the better.

Once you stop entertaining a negative frame of mind you’ll be able to look at a situation for what it really is. Often you’ll find your imagination is worse than reality. Seeing the situation as it exists opens the doors for solutions and peace of mind.

Lisa Radke is one of the owners of Wild Natural Beauty natural and organic beauty essentials. Please visit our website at www. wildnaturalbeauty.com.

Double D's - Dryness and Damaged Skin

Have too much fun this summer? Got a little pink in the sun, -well, ok red? Maybe spend too much time in the pool? Good times make good memories but now you’ve caught yourself starring too long into the mirror at those splotches and dry patches on your face and wondering what to do now.

Thinking back now maybe getting that sexy summer glow wasn’t really the best thing for your skin. And the “after sun” gels with Aloe Vera just didn’t live up to their promise, did they?

Wild Natural Beauty’s Vibrance Facial Cleanser may be just what you need. Vibrance Facial Cleanser is a hydrating and replenishing cleanser for dry and damaged skin. Featuring Roobios, it’s loaded with Super Anti-Oxidants to attack free radicals and their damaging effects on your skin. Our cleanser is soothing and nourishing for your skin and will leave it soft, smooth and clean.

Vibrance Facial Cleanser uses a combination of fats and oils to work as cleaning agents on your skin and skips the typical surfacants used in other products. The result: your skin is left hydrated not dry and irritated.

How does this work? Isn’t oil a bad thing on your face? Yes and no. Oil that is produced from your skin is called sebum and it acts as a defense for your skin. Then there are oils that can be used to clean, like olive oil. This oil has been a standing tradition among many Mediterranean beauties for many, many generations.

Oils and fats are complex triglycerides with different fatty acids. All fatty acids are lipophilic and hydrophilic. Lipophilic will attract oil and hydrophilic will attract water.

They work together; the hydrophilic molecules use the water to reach a wider surface to clean and absorb into your skin which leads the lipophilic molecules into more areas to drawn oil and dirt away from and out of your skin to clean it.

Dry and damaged skin need some extra TLC and Wild Natural Beauty’s Vibrance Facial Cleanser is the perfect way to pamper your skin and to show it off too.

Lisa Radke is one of the owners of Wild Natural Beauty natural and organic beauty essentials. Please visit our website at www. wildnaturalbeauty.com.

Build A Good Defense

As summer winds down to a close one’s attention is pulled away from sun and play and back to work and school. Fall will bring cooler days and more time indoors. Not that this is a bad thing but autumn is also a time for colds. With people spending more time indoors together germs and viruses are easily spread. There are easy ways to keep a simple sniffle from turning into a
full-blown cold.

Most are familiar items, like Vitamin C, which is a natural antihistamine, in addition to boosting one’s immunity. Others immune boosters are Vitamin D, garlic and honey. Echinacea can be taken as a preventative and treatment.

Feeling that first tickle in your throat? Some Zinc combined with Vitamin C should stop it in its tracks and Echinacea with garlic is also extremely effective cold fighter.

Protecting your body internally is just half the battle. Here are some tips for keeping the external threats at bay. Everyone knows to wash your hands, even if you don’t – you should because it really does work. Hand sanitizers are convenient options but like washing your hands it can easily dry them out. You can make your own hand sanitizer by using your favorite lotion and mixing in some Tea Tree essential oil or Grapefruit Seed Extract (about 2% should be enough). Do this and your hands remain clean but also moisturized.

Tea Tree, Sweet Orange (any citrus oil), Pine or Oregano essential oils can be mixes with water and used as a mild cleanser to keep your desk at work clean (or any surface). The scent is a plus for your and other office mates and its better than often toxic cleansers available at the grocery store. To make a natural cleaner mix about 20 drops to 8 ounces of water in spray bottle.

Make it simple for yourself and it’s easy to keep up and continue. Here’s wishing you good health this season.

Got a question? Or a suggestion for discussion? Send us an email at contact@wildnaturalbeauty.com. We’re always happy to hear from you.

Lisa Radke is one of the owners of Wild Natural Beauty natural and organic beauty essentials. Please visit our website at www. wildnaturalbeauty.com.

Small Steps

I was sitting on my patio the other day enjoying the work my husband has done with the many, many plants that decorate the area when it struck me. They are still green. Now, we live in Texas and it is HOT and currently, we are suffering under an unrelenting drought. Even though our area is not under mandatory water restrictions there are still brown areas and the grass is brittle. But the plants around our patio are still green and leafy.

We can’t move these plants inside to protect them from the scorching heat during the day. All we can do is provide shade for the plants that need it and water them. I found myself admiring how tough and resilient these plants are. Even our grass will come back too, next spring, but it’ll come back.

With just a little care nature can survive. It's the same for our bodies too. It doesn’t take much to keep a body working as it should. Rest when you are tired. Drink plenty of water. And eat good food.

Nowadays, the trend is green, organic, healthy, and natural, which can be time consuming and overwhelming. Too, many people reject this trend because they believe they have to go all in to get any benefit out it. Sure, they try and struggle, get tempted by the old ways of fast food and soft drinks, sweet smelling shampoo and hair products and other conveniences and stray. After indulging in the non-green and healthy lifestyle some may feel guilty, defeated and give up believing they just don’t have the discipline, time or money to continue a healthier way of living.

Lies. All of it. The human body is an amazing feat of engineering and its stronger than people often believe. It’s amazingly resilient and it’s recuperative powers are quite respectable. Your body can endure a lot of abuse but once you start to treat it better it responds. The great thing is that it doesn’t take a lot of pampering to get your body in a healthy state of being again. If your body has a chance to take of itself it will, but you have to give it that chance.

Rest. When your body is tired, it will look for energy. Some studies have shown that those who don’t get enough sleep tend to overeat during the day. That’s your body’s attempt at getting the energy it needs to work. Unfortunately, when we overeat, we tend to eat poorly. Sugar snacks for a quick boost rather than a piece of fruit is usually method to refuel.

Food. Good food. Grab a piece of fruit for a snack instead of a candy bar. Eat a salad with the fast food dinner. You may find when your body is properly fed it runs better. You have more energy. Making small changes will keep you on a healthy path without feeling deprived.

Water. Dehydration is probably the most underrated threat to one’s health. Water supplies your entire body with moisture. Lack of water affects your hair and skin and body functions. Drinking water flushes away toxins from your body and it also quells hunger. Did you know that most of the time when you feel hungry your body is looking for water? If you are not a big water drinker, your body won’t immediately utilize thirst as an option to get what it needs. Water can be obtained through food and so your body may make you feel hungry just to get the water it needs.

When your body is not fighting to survive the barrage of processed foods, exhaustion, and dehydration it has energy to get healthy, repairing damage as it was designed to do. Some small changes in your everyday living can have a big effect on the rest of your life.

Lisa Radke is one of the owners of Wild Natural Beauty natural and organic beauty essentials. Please visit our website at www. wildnaturalbeauty.com.

The Air That You Breathe

The other day I was at the grocery store with my husband looking for some air fresheners. I personally have never tired of my sweet orange oil but I figured I’d give him a break and see what’s out there. I’ve been encouraged by the improvements in dishwashing liquids, laundry detergents and cleaners but I am disappointed with the air fresheners.

Reading the labels of all these air fresheners left me confused and suspicious, even irritated. There were chemical names I could not pronounce on some labels, others described the action of the chemical, like anti-corrosives and preservatives. Some bottles didn’t even list ingredients. One label offered percentages of their ingredients, including “other ingredients 41.6%”. So this brand is telling me, a potential vict- consumer that I don’t really need to know what’s in their bottle. It’s not important to know what I’m spraying into the air and inhaling. Needless to say we walked away without buying any one of them.

Air fresheners and for that matter, perfumes of any kind do not fall under the same restrictions as cosmetics, skin care and food. The FDA does not consider scent a food or a drug. The reasoning is because it does not come in direct contact with the body. It’s not something taken orally or applied topically. The excuse is faulty. Anything one inhales comes into direct contact with the body. Once inhaled a scent or chemical is brought into the lungs and absorbed through its walls and delivered throughout the body via the bloodstream.

We don’t always have control of the air that we breathe but when we do there are easy, healthy and pleasant ways to fill the air. Essential oils are a perfect option for fragrance and come in a wide variety of choices. Besides being good for a personal fragrance essential oils can be used as air fresheners. Here are a few tips to get you started:

• Make your own potpourri using your favorite dried flowers or herbs. Essential oils can be added to boost the fragrance.
• Boil a small amount of water and pour into a bowl, then add a few drops of essential oil into the water and let the steam carry the scent through the house.
• Make your own reed diffuser. Kits are usually available at you local hobby shop and health foods stores.
• Don’t forget baking soda is good for absorbing foul odors. Sprinkled on the carpet or shoes and in the disposal will keep the funky smells from taking over the house too.
• Fresh cut flowers (and potted ones too) are, of course, the best way to freshen up a room. Last month our Jasmine was in bloom and smelling it late in the day was heaven.

Funny, there are so many easy and better alternatives to those fake, plastic air fresheners at the grocery store it’s a pity they don’t think we are worth it.

Got a question? Or a suggestion for discussion? Send us an email at contact@wildnaturalbeauty.com. We’re always happy to hear from you.

Lisa Radke is one of the owners of Wild Natural Beauty natural and organic beauty essentials. Please visit our website at www. wildnaturalbeauty.com.

My Big Picture

I found myself this week completely overwhelmed by little things. Our company had two special events to prepare and a few ongoing projects to finish. As always as the end approaches it’s always the details that will trip you up.

There were letters to write, special labeling, packaging and all the special tweaks to finish these projects. Oh yeah, and computer work. I love my computer. I am old enough to remember what it was like without one, but I don’t want to be joined at the hip with it. For me it was finish a project and send it. Then get it back to correct it. After finishing it all to everyone’s satisfaction I was gently reminded of a task I forgot I still had to do. Oops! We even had terrible storms one night that delayed my work for a couple of hours.

Despite all of these upsets and demands on my time I kept the big picture in mind. I could have gone down in a tail spin of panic and nerves but I didn’t. When those feelings crept in I reminded myself of the big picture. My life. My goals and dreams. What do I want? Where do I want to be?

By reminding myself to step back and look around it kept me clear and levelheaded. It acted like a shining beacon that I could focus on through the storm to keep myself on course.

It was seeing the big picture like a map that kept me from straying onto avenues of panic. I could see where I was but more importantly I could also see where I wanted to be. The big picture showed me how far I’ve come and what to prepare for in times ahead.

In the big picture you lose sight of the small details. The upsets in one week are mere tiny specks. There is freedom in the big picture. It removes the focus from you. You are apart of something else, something bigger. In five years, will this week matter? Probably not and that’s ok. Not every moment must be significant. Sometimes it helps to rise above your situation in life and look at the entire situation for fresh perspective. You may find you’ve been dreading some imperfections or annoyances that are really very small.

Of course, details have a place in one’s life and setbacks and problems teach us valuable lessons about ourselves and life, but you shouldn’t let yourself get bullied by them. Step back and look around. You may find that you don’t have to be so hard on yourself and those around you.


Got a question? Or a suggestion for discussion? Send us an email at contact@wildnaturalbeauty.com. We’re always happy to hear from you.

Lisa Radke is one of the owners of Wild Natural Beauty natural and organic beauty essentials. Please visit our website at www. wildnaturalbeauty.com.